Document-Based Framing Questions:
·What were some of the challenges and difficulties associated with the construction of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building?
·What is the irony associated with the construction of these two buildings?
·How are the buildings a metaphor for the economic development of New York City and a sign of faith in its future?
Ellie
(The out line of the rising of the waters) (Talking abut the Empire state building.) Comments and basic history notes!!^^” #1) the construction of the empire state building took place during the American depression. The history behind the construction of the building was based on a race between the Chryslers and the john they wanted to see who could build the tallest building. Since it was race between these two companies to see who would bring the tallest building the construction for the empire state building was going to be speed up even faster so the window frames windows the pots and beams where first made in factories then imported and put together in the construction site. Most of the materials needed for the construction of this building were mostly imported from other states and countries this made the Making the speed of this construction even faster. Equipment and materials such like steel which is imported huge amounts like up to 30,000 were sent in great amounts from pensavaniya. [ Time line for the empire state building.] Empire state construction began during: March 17, 1930 The end of the construction was in: The meaning or purpose for the construction for the building: the construction of this building was all based on a race between two companies that were trying to make the tallest building so it was basically a race. But this took place in the worst time ever the construction was during the depression. [Read documents on the empire state building] (Document #1) Huge empire state building opens this week: This document is New York Times document talking about the construction of the building. 1)85 stories rising from fifth avenue 2)Making this building about 1,248 feet above 3)The building was built to resist about anything. 4)This article talks about the empire state building selling space 5) [Empire #2 document] [Smith Lays Stone for Tallest Tower]
1)The construction of the empire state building is consider to be the tallest building built up to date in that time
2)It was an attraction to may people
3)The construction this building was often critized by most news papers but its structures have captured others. [Empire state building document #3] [Smith Skyscraper Has a Novel Design]
Rosmery
THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
-MAY 1, 1931, THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING STOOD FINISHED ON THE GLEAMING MODERN OFFICE TOWER CLAD IN ALUMINUM SPANDRELS AND LIMESTONE PANELS WAS ALREADY AN ICON ON THE MANHATTAN SKYLINE.
-THE BUILDING WAS THE TALLEST IN THE WORLD, AND ALACRITY IN CONSTRUCTION WERE THE ESSENCE SINCE SEPTEMBER 1929.
HUGE EMPIRE STATE OPENS THIS WEEK
-THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING WAS NOT ERECTED FOR THE SAKE OF MERE BIGNESS, EVEN THOU IS DIMENSIONS EQUAL THE TOTAL OF A DOZEN ORDINARILY LARGE SIZE OFFICE STRUCTURE.( ALFRED E. SMITH)
-THE BUILDING STANDS AS THE GREAT APEX OF OFFICES SMITH LAYS STONE FOR TALLEST TOWER
-PRESIDENT ALFRED E. SMITH MANIPULATES A SILVER TROWEL, CEMENTING THE 4,500-POUND SEMI-CIRCULAR STONE INTO PLACE.
-PRESIDENT SMITH TRACED THE HISTORY OF THE PLOT FROM THE TIME WHEN IT FORMED THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE THOMPSON FARM EIGTHY YEARS AGO.
-THE BUILDING STANDS 200FT HIGH ABOVE 85 FLOOR, THE COST OF THE LAND AND BUILDING WILL BE 55,000,000
SMITH SKYCRAPER HAS A NOVEL DESIGN
-THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING OCCUPIES THE SITE OF THE OLD WALDORF-ASTORIA.
-THE BUILDING CONTAINS 3,000,000 SQUARE FEET OF RENTAL SPACE. TALLEST TOWER BUILT IN LESS THAN A YEAR
-THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING WAS COMPLETED WELL AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, WITHIN A YEAR FROM THE TIME OF THE SETTING OF THE FIRST COLUMN.
-THE FIRST STEEL COLUMNS WERE SET ON APRIL 7, 1930
-3,400 MEN WORKED ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BUILDING.
Task Chart-Rosmery
Question #1: What were some of the challenges and difficulties associated with the construction of the Chrysler & the Empire State building?
The Fifty-Three Story Lincoln Building was being erected. The building is opposite of the Grand Central Station and facing Venderbilt Avenue. It covered the old Lincoln storage warehouse; it was a landmark for New York, which was the first of New York City. It was secured by thousands of strangers arriving through the Grand Central Station. The new building was going to be 900,000 square feet and the rent will be $4,528,000. It will have thirty elevators, a restaurant, two subway entrances with direct connection to all subway lines and the Grand Central Station. The building was being built by Dwight P. Robinson & Company from plans by J.E.R Carpenter and association. With the new building are the Hotel Belmont in the east and the Heckscher building in the west.
Chrysler Building 809 Feet in Height
The tallest building will cost $15,000,000. The Chrysler Building was being under construction on the east side of Lexington Avenue block front between Forty-third and Fort-fourth Streets. The building is 809 feet high, making it the tallest building in the world, next to the 792 feet of the Woolworth Building. The elevators will be constructed vertical transportation and will be the first in the world to be constructed like that. It will be designed to run as rapidly as 900 feet a minute. The nonstop schedule would run the entire distance in less then a minute. 11,000 people can comfortably be housed in the offices and they will have 150 employs working traffic. The total amount of space that it will take is 37,555 feet square. The front will be 167.2 on Forty-Second Street; 210.10 on Lexington Avenue and 205 feet on Forty-Third Avenue. Sixteen stories would be 182 feet without any setback. First setback will be eighteen feet for the next seventeen stories. The volume of the entire building including the tower is fifty-six stories. The dome is twelve stories so the entire building will be sixty-eight stories. There will be floodlights in each of the four corners of the terrace on the fifty-sixth floor and on top of the dome. On top of the skyscraper there will be a star with thirteen points. It will be mounted by a figure sixteen feet high. The great hall will run parallel to Lexington Avenue, north and south. The entrance will be 20 feet wide and 40 feet in height. The hall will be 100 feet long, 32 feet wide and 26 feet in the corners. The subway entrance will be built on the forty-second street and forty-third street corners.
Chrysler Building Escapes City Taxes
The sixty-eight story Chrysler building is being built on the east side of Lexington Avenue, between Forty-second and Forty-third streets and has been raised in advance of completion at $14,000,000. Leasehold will be free of city taxes unless they put the old law in which the land and building from taxation is changed. They were investigating how the Chrysler Building will not pay a tax directly to the city on the project, under a contract; it will pay in addition to the ground rental a sum almost equivalent to the taxes to Cooper Union. In 1859, by special legislative act, Cooper Union received tax exemption on all land and buildings. Cooper Union has defended several efforts to have its holdings placed on the tax lists. The city attempted to tax the property upon which the Chrysler Building will stand failed and the court decision interpreting the law covering all holdings of the Copper Union whether used by the organization for educational purposes. Henry M. Goldfogle was questioned about that Chrysler Project and admitted that he had “ordered a research” in his office to determine the history of tax-exempt tract and the rulings under which the old law was upheld as a “possible future action.” The Chrysler structure was scheduled to be completed in May, 1930.
Chrysler Building Now Tallest Edifice
Tower height of 808 Feet passes Woolworth Structure by Sixteen Feet. The Chrysler building surpasses the 792-foot elevation of the Woolworth Building by 16 feet. The Chrysler Building wasn’t going to be the tallest building because they were doing the Bank of Manhattan Building on Wall Street which they planned to built it to be 840 feet high. The main entrance of the lobby is fan shaped, the elevator will run a speed of about 1,000 feet a minute and the dome will be an enclosed observation gallery.
Chrysler Building Opens
Hundreds of visitors went to visit the Chrysler Building and the elevators were kept busy, carrying passengers as far as the sixty-seventh floor of the seventy-seventh story structure. Among the people that went to visit the building were several students from Lehigh University’s electrical engineering classes. Some tenants have moved to their offices already and among the people that were taking large spaces was the Texas Company, which occupies the spaces from sixteenth to the twenty-ninth floor.
The Miracle of Mounting Skyscrapers
They had to destroy a building in order to do the Woolworth Building. New York is full of mysteries. The lower and midtown sections of Manhattan are the places where all the building were at.
Questions
Primary Documents
Secondary Documents
What were the challenges and difficulties associated with the construction of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building?
Document 1- Another Skyscraper for the Grand Central Zone. Document 2- Chrysler Building 809 Feet in Height. Document 5- Chrysler Building Opens.
What is the irony associated with the construction of these two buildings?
How are these two buildings a metaphor for the economic development of New York City and a sign of faith in its future?
Document 3- Chrysler Building Escapes City Taxes. Document 4- Chrysler Building Now Tallest Edifice. Document 6- The Miracle of Mounting Skyscraper.
Document-Based Framing Questions:
· What were some of the challenges and difficulties associated with the construction of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building?
· What is the irony associated with the construction of these two buildings?
· How are the buildings a metaphor for the economic development of New York City and a sign of faith in its future?
Ellie
(The out line of the rising of the waters)
(Talking abut the Empire state building.)
Comments and basic history notes!!^^”
#1) the construction of the empire state building took place during the American depression. The history behind the construction of the building was based on a race between the Chryslers and the john they wanted to see who could build the tallest building. Since it was race between these two companies to see who would bring the tallest building the construction for the empire state building was going to be speed up even faster so the window frames windows the pots and beams where first made in factories then imported and put together in the construction site. Most of the materials needed for the construction of this building were mostly imported from other states and countries this made the Making the speed of this construction even faster. Equipment and materials such like steel which is imported huge amounts like up to 30,000 were sent in great amounts from pensavaniya.
[ Time line for the empire state building.]
Empire state construction began during: March 17, 1930
The end of the construction was in:
The meaning or purpose for the construction for the building: the construction of this building was all based on a race between two companies that were trying to make the tallest building so it was basically a race. But this took place in the worst time ever the construction was during the depression.
[Read documents on the empire state building]
(Document #1) Huge empire state building opens this week:
This document is New York Times document talking about the construction of the building.
1) 85 stories rising from fifth avenue
2) Making this building about 1,248 feet above
3) The building was built to resist about anything.
4) This article talks about the empire state building selling space
5)
[Empire #2 document]
[Smith Lays Stone for Tallest Tower]
1) The construction of the empire state building is consider to be the tallest building built up to date in that time
2) It was an attraction to may people
3) The construction this building was often critized by most news papers but its structures have captured others.
[Empire state building document #3]
[Smith Skyscraper Has a Novel Design]
Rosmery
THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
-MAY 1, 1931, THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING STOOD FINISHED ON THE GLEAMING MODERN OFFICE TOWER CLAD IN ALUMINUM SPANDRELS AND LIMESTONE PANELS WAS ALREADY AN ICON ON THE MANHATTAN SKYLINE.
-THE BUILDING WAS THE TALLEST IN THE WORLD, AND ALACRITY IN CONSTRUCTION WERE THE ESSENCE SINCE SEPTEMBER 1929.
HUGE EMPIRE STATE OPENS THIS WEEK
-THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING WAS NOT ERECTED FOR THE SAKE OF MERE BIGNESS, EVEN THOU IS DIMENSIONS EQUAL THE TOTAL OF A DOZEN ORDINARILY LARGE SIZE OFFICE STRUCTURE.( ALFRED E. SMITH)
-THE BUILDING STANDS AS THE GREAT APEX OF OFFICES
SMITH LAYS STONE FOR TALLEST TOWER
-PRESIDENT ALFRED E. SMITH MANIPULATES A SILVER TROWEL, CEMENTING THE 4,500-POUND SEMI-CIRCULAR STONE INTO PLACE.
-PRESIDENT SMITH TRACED THE HISTORY OF THE PLOT FROM THE TIME WHEN IT FORMED THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE THOMPSON FARM EIGTHY YEARS AGO.
-THE BUILDING STANDS 200FT HIGH ABOVE 85 FLOOR, THE COST OF THE LAND AND BUILDING WILL BE 55,000,000
SMITH SKYCRAPER HAS A NOVEL DESIGN
-THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING OCCUPIES THE SITE OF THE OLD WALDORF-ASTORIA.
-THE BUILDING CONTAINS 3,000,000 SQUARE FEET OF RENTAL SPACE.
TALLEST TOWER BUILT IN LESS THAN A YEAR
-THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING WAS COMPLETED WELL AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, WITHIN A YEAR FROM THE TIME OF THE SETTING OF THE FIRST COLUMN.
-THE FIRST STEEL COLUMNS WERE SET ON APRIL 7, 1930
-3,400 MEN WORKED ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BUILDING.
Task Chart-Rosmery
Doc#5-Throngs Inspect Tallest Building. Throngs Inspect Tallest Building.
Doc#1-Huge Empire State Building Opens This week
Doc#6-http://www.jstor.org.memex.lehman.cuny.edu:2048/
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Doc#4- Tallest tower built in less than a year.
Doc#3- Smith Skycraper has A Novel Design
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Paola Calderon- Outline
Another Skyscraper for the Grand Central Zone
The Fifty-Three Story Lincoln Building was being erected. The building is opposite of the Grand Central Station and facing Venderbilt Avenue.It covered the old Lincoln storage warehouse; it was a landmark for New York, which was the first of New York City. It was secured by thousands of strangers arriving through the Grand Central Station.
The new building was going to be 900,000 square feet and the rent will be $4,528,000. It will have thirty elevators, a restaurant, two subway entrances with direct connection to all subway lines and the Grand Central Station.
The building was being built by Dwight P. Robinson & Company from plans by J.E.R Carpenter and association.
With the new building are the Hotel Belmont in the east and the Heckscher building in the west.
Chrysler Building 809 Feet in Height
The tallest building will cost $15,000,000.The Chrysler Building was being under construction on the east side of Lexington Avenue block front between Forty-third and Fort-fourth Streets.
The building is 809 feet high, making it the tallest building in the world, next to the 792 feet of the Woolworth Building.
The elevators will be constructed vertical transportation and will be the first in the world to be constructed like that. It will be designed to run as rapidly as 900 feet a minute. The nonstop schedule would run the entire distance in less then a minute.
11,000 people can comfortably be housed in the offices and they will have 150 employs working traffic. The total amount of space that it will take is 37,555 feet square. The front will be 167.2 on Forty-Second Street; 210.10 on Lexington Avenue and 205 feet on Forty-Third Avenue.
Sixteen stories would be 182 feet without any setback. First setback will be eighteen feet for the next seventeen stories. The volume of the entire building including the tower is fifty-six stories. The dome is twelve stories so the entire building will be sixty-eight stories.
There will be floodlights in each of the four corners of the terrace on the fifty-sixth floor and on top of the dome. On top of the skyscraper there will be a star with thirteen points. It will be mounted by a figure sixteen feet high.
The great hall will run parallel to Lexington Avenue, north and south. The entrance will be 20 feet wide and 40 feet in height. The hall will be 100 feet long, 32 feet wide and 26 feet in the corners.
The subway entrance will be built on the forty-second street and forty-third street corners.
Chrysler Building Escapes City Taxes
The sixty-eight story Chrysler building is being built on the east side of Lexington Avenue, between Forty-second and Forty-third streets and has been raised in advance of completion at $14,000,000. Leasehold will be free of city taxes unless they put the old law in which the land and building from taxation is changed.They were investigating how the Chrysler Building will not pay a tax directly to the city on the project, under a contract; it will pay in addition to the ground rental a sum almost equivalent to the taxes to Cooper Union.
In 1859, by special legislative act, Cooper Union received tax exemption on all land and buildings. Cooper Union has defended several efforts to have its holdings placed on the tax lists.
The city attempted to tax the property upon which the Chrysler Building will stand failed and the court decision interpreting the law covering all holdings of the Copper Union whether used by the organization for educational purposes.
Henry M. Goldfogle was questioned about that Chrysler Project and admitted that he had “ordered a research” in his office to determine the history of tax-exempt tract and the rulings under which the old law was upheld as a “possible future action.”
The Chrysler structure was scheduled to be completed in May, 1930.
Chrysler Building Now Tallest Edifice
Tower height of 808 Feet passes Woolworth Structure by Sixteen Feet.The Chrysler building surpasses the 792-foot elevation of the Woolworth Building by 16 feet.
The Chrysler Building wasn’t going to be the tallest building because they were doing the Bank of Manhattan Building on Wall Street which they planned to built it to be 840 feet high.
The main entrance of the lobby is fan shaped, the elevator will run a speed of about 1,000 feet a minute and the dome will be an enclosed observation gallery.
Chrysler Building Opens
Hundreds of visitors went to visit the Chrysler Building and the elevators were kept busy, carrying passengers as far as the sixty-seventh floor of the seventy-seventh story structure.Among the people that went to visit the building were several students from Lehigh University’s electrical engineering classes.
Some tenants have moved to their offices already and among the people that were taking large spaces was the Texas Company, which occupies the spaces from sixteenth to the twenty-ninth floor.
The Miracle of Mounting Skyscrapers
They had to destroy a building in order to do the Woolworth Building.New York is full of mysteries.
The lower and midtown sections of Manhattan are the places where all the building were at.
Document 2- Chrysler Building 809 Feet in Height.
Document 5- Chrysler Building Opens.
Document 4- Chrysler Building Now Tallest Edifice.
Document 6- The Miracle of Mounting Skyscraper.